Shortly after Google announced its new universal commerce protocol for AI-powered sales agents, a consumer economy watchdog sounded the alarm. In a post now viral on X Viewed nearly 400,000 times, Lindsay Owens wrote on Sunday: “Big/bad news for consumers. Google today announced how it plans to integrate shopping into its AI offerings, including search…
Executives like David Solomon of Goldman Sachs say experience trumps everything in business, including brains. But Ricardo Amper, founder and CEO of the $1.25 billion software company Incode Technologies, believes Gen Z’s naivety is a professional blessing rather than a career curse. “My belief [is] that it is important to come out with a fresh…
Editor’s note: This article is part of In the Omniversea series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners and businesses can transform their workflows using the latest advancements in OpenUSD And NVIDIA Omniverse. Open source has become essential to drive innovation in robotics and autonomy. By providing access to critical infrastructure – from simulation frameworks to…
‘He Gets Us’ campaign returns with another ad In the final moments of the broadcast, the evangelical groups behind the “He Gets Us” campaign poke at consumerism and greed to ask, “Is there more to life than more?” It’s the fourth straight year the group has advertised in the Super Bowl, and the controversial campaign…
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MADISON, Wis. (Gray) – The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to regulate the state’s growing artificial intelligence data center industry. The bill moved quickly through the Statehouse, receiving a vote less than two weeks after being introduced. The bill passed 53-44, largely along partisan lines, with Democrats opposing it. “This bill balances the strategic…
Today we are launching Voxtral Transcribe 2, two next-generation speech-to-text models delivering industry-leading transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency. The family includes Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications. Voxtral Realtime is open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re also launching an audio playground in Mistral Studio to test…
For many supply chain organizations, the resilience conversation has shifted from reacting to disruption to understanding exposure. This shift requires companies to dig deeper, beyond tier-one suppliers, beyond transactional data, and into the physical and geographic realities that shape how goods are purchased, moved and stored over time. The question is no longer whether organizations…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to visit India in mid-February, his first visit to the country in nearly a year, TechCrunch has learned. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit that is expected to attract top executives from Meta, Google and Anthropic. India hosts its first major AI event:…
In 2024, around the time of Davos, you wrote an article titled “AI will transform the economy. Let’s make it work for humanity” that focused largely on the implications of AI for the job market. What is the verdict? We certainly see benefits for humanity in the penetration of many applications of AI into the…